As a result of her latest showcasing in a prestige outlet (Immigration Nation - Foreign Affairs November/December 2006), Tamar Jacoby, the MSM’s pro-immigration advocate of choice, has got on Larry Auster’s nerves. This is a dangerous place to be. The proprietor of View from the Right says:

Tamar Jacoby, whom I used to think of as a bird-brain for open borders, has evolved into a stone-cold, Soviet-style liar for open borders…This liar claims with a straight face that an “overwhelming majority” of Americans are for amnesty. It seems that the more conscienceless her lying becomes, the more prominence and influence she gains.

Auster concludes his incisive critique:

Jacoby and her open-borders allies are leftists. Leftists are driven by spiritual greed–the greed to transform and control society. They hate the society that actually and historically exists and they lust for the day when it will have become something unrecognizable from what it now is and once was. They will say anything to advance their purposes.

As usual at VFR, an intelligent discussion ensues. Following one comment he responds:

Whatever immigration advocates may say is their reason for wanting mass immigration, in reality their chief motivation is to end America as a white country. Once you understand this, their irrational and inconsistent positions start to fall into place.

(This in my view is the conclusive one sentence explanation to the Kaus/Fulford query about the reason a Democratic Congress would pass the Bush-Kennedy Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration bill)

Acknowledging

Calling a writer and public policy spokesman a liar is admittedly strong stuff.

Auster deploys a closely-reasoned justification, observing:

There is no way, I repeat, there is no way, that she cannot know about the deep popular opposition in this country to amnesty, especially as it was that very opposition that shot dead the “comprehensive” immigration package this year that she and her allies fanatically supported and had believed was assured of passage. When we further realize the gross dishonesty of the polls on which she bases the assertion, and when we further think of the damage to America of the mass immigration she is trying to foist on us through that assertion, I think the harshest language, including calling her a liar, is justified.

A correspondent remarks:

I read quite a bit of what The Manhattan Institute publishes, and I am uniformly impressed…How did a genuine fool end up in such smart company?

LA replies:

By her being such an absolute, unyielding devotee of open immigration. It was her staunch insensibility in support of an indefensible cause, her lack of intellectual conscience, that has made her what she is.

And, he might have added, because of the MSM need for Storm Troopers of Treason.

Gwinnett County has lately been on the front lines of the culture war between the West and primitive tribal cruelty. An Ethiopian immigrant has been found guilty there for committing female genital mutilation (FGM) on his two-year-old daughter.

The father, Khalid Adem, said he was not guilty. (He comes from a country where the prevalence of FGM is 90 percent.) His now divorced wife Fortunate Adem, an immigrant from South Africa, said that he did indeed physically castrate their child.

Police say Adem circumcised his daughter with scissors in his Duluth apartment, while someone else held the girl’s legs.

Authorities said the circumcision occurred sometime in 2001 but the mother didn’t discover it until two years later. The mother told police she learned about it while arguing with Adem about female circumcision. The mother told police that she told Adem she didn’t want that to happen to their daughter, but Adem implied the circumcision had already occurred. [...]

Opponents claim the procedure, which may involve the removal of the clitoris or all of the external genitalia, is extremely painful, medically unnecessary and unsafe. It is illegal in the United States and has been condemned by the United Nations.
[Dad stands trial over daughter's mutilation, Atlanta Journal Constitution 10/23/06]

The fact that the mom didn’t notice her daughter had undergone a very painful procedure was odd, to say the least. So the question of guilt was troubling (and intelligently discussed in a Gates of Vienna blog). But the jury found for the prosecution in only four hours, so they were obviously persuaded.

Adem could receive up to 40 years in prison for aggravated battery and cruelty to children. The date of sentencing is unclear.

The more important question is why we citizens must accept criminal cultures as part of diversity in immigration. The government refuses entry to individual human rights abusers, and deports them when discovered, yet admits entire groups which have cultural norms judged criminal by our society.

Removal of the body parts that provide sexual pleasure to females is thought a fine way to subjugate them in numerous African cultures.

It’s not like the government hasn’t noticed this criminality before now. Congress made FGM illegal in 1996 after many years of prodding by Rep. Pat Schroeder.

In 2002, American authorities considered banning Somali refugees who had committed FGM on their children, but the Refugee Industrial Complex nixed that. Among Somalis, FGM is nearly universal (98% prevalence), and parents rushed to have their little girls cut after hearing the practice was illegal in the US.

There are areas of culture clash that can be argued as being a simple difference in opinion. But the torture and life-long damage of innocent children cannot be placed in that category. Immigration is not a right, and particularly should not be available to the world’s criminal cultures.

The deadline for making comment to the Department of Defense proposal for relaxing security requirements for foreign workers is coming soon. I hope there are a few more ghosts and goblins who are lurking in the shadows with commentary because the deadline is November 2.

Universities are the main group who seems to be pushing for relaxing security standards. They submitted a flurry of comments the last two weeks.

Universities and their sub-contractors hope that by gutting security they can hire more researchers on visas such as H-1B and TN. You can bet they will also assign research to foreign students that work for free!

The most conspicuous absence on the website is a single comment from an organization that purports to represent American workers. Ditto for immigration reform groups. Weird, huh?

Why is there such a lack of concern about mass immigrations of foreign spies and saboteurs into our research labs? If you are one of the few Americans that think this is an important issue, you have until November 2 to tell the DoD why.

I have some new information below, so be sure to read it. It’s not all repeat!

***** PROCEDURE FOR VIEWING COMMENTS *****

The procedure for viewing documents has changed once again. Fortunately it’s simpler than the 9 steps I listed last time. They change this website faster than I can send newsletters!

Follow these directions verbatim.

1) Go to this page at Regulations.Gov.

2) Enter “2004-D010″ without quotes in the search engine. Leave all other settings at default.

3) Click the submit button.

4) In the Docket ID column click DARS-2006-0065.

5) You will see comments listed under the column labeled “Views”. Just click on them to read.

***** PROCEDURE FOR POSTING COMMENTS *****

• The easiest way to post comments is to send an email to dfars@osd.mil. You must put “Case 2004-D010″ in the subject heading without the quotes. You can also put other stuff in the subject heading if you want to add more.
• Please do not CC me on your email posting because the CC will show online. If you want to send me a copy, forward the email instead of using CC. It’s probably bad form to have the CC posted.
• If you send your email in HTML format instead of plain text they will automatically generate a PDF file, which looks far better than just plain text.
• They will also post attachments in PDF or Word format. I don’t recommend Word format because many people can’t view MS documents.

Alternate posting methods

• Repeat steps 1-4 above, or click the back button on your browser.
• Click the “add comments” icon. They have several other alternatives including an online form. Some people have reported that the online form is buggy, so be sure to have a separate copy of your writings in case it crashes.

My two-bits worth of advice

Take this exercise very seriously, because the DoD may make a published document out of all this material. This is a great opportunity to go on the record with your views! Read this privacy statement from the webpage:

Any information (e.g., personal or contact) you provide on this comment form or in an attachment may be publicly disclosed and searchable on the Internet and in a paper docket and will be provided to the Department or Agency issuing the notice.

As expected, the universities have wasted no time posting comments. Most of their comments reference the following document on the Association of American Universities website (AAU).[AAU comment:PDF]

Universities and big business are pushing these changes in order to exploit cheap foreign labor and to cut costs by gutting security requirements. However true, be frugal about emphasizing the cheap labor argument because the DoD might think it’s a good idea if money can be saved. Perhaps a better line of argument would be to explain why replacing Americans is bad for security and how it harms our technology infrastructure.

Consider it fair game to copy other people’s comments. The universities are doing it. In the DFARS document they logged the number of comments for or against a certain provision, so in some respects the quantity of comments is just as important as the content.

It wouldn’t hurt if you spent some time reading my previous newsletters on the DoD as well as some of the comments already submitted at the website.

For further reading, and more background on this issue, read my commentary. It is document DARS-2006-0065-0012.

I also wrote this essay on VDARE.com Be sure to follow up on the links. DoD Eases Security Rules For Foreign Workers, October 05, 2006

I wrote a shorter version that was targeted for newspaper op-eds. It was picked up by a syndicated editorial company and then the op-ed was sent out to hundreds of newspapers, but unfortunately it hasn’t been published. These types of stories are a very tough sell in the mainstream media.

You can read that op-ed column on the Californians for Population Stabilization website:Pentagon Proposes to Gut National Security, September 2006

If any of you are in the media and want to publish the column in your newspaper, please contact CAP-S.org here.

John Trever of the Albuquerque Journal seems to understand the difference between the proposed “Great Wall Of America” and the Berlin Wall better than Linda Chavez does:

Thanks to Paul Nachman for pointing this out.